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| Justice system cuts to fund Corrections |
| By Lexington Herald-Leader |
| Published: 01/30/2008 |
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KENTUCKY - Kentucky would keep packing felons into its prisons and jails, and the Corrections Department would suck money from the rest of the justice system -- including Kentucky State Police, prosecutors and public defenders -- in Gov. Steve Beshear's two-year budget proposal. The state expects to incarcerate about 24,000 felons by fiscal 2010, up from about 22,500 today. To help with this load, Beshear would expand the medium-security Little Sandy Correctional Complex in Elliott County by 816 beds, using $39 million in bond funds. He would stick 500 more felons in county jails, many of which already are overcrowded with state inmates, and he would put hundreds more in private prisons or let them serve time at home, electronically monitored. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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